About

d6xd6 CORE Role-Playing Game

$11,456

pledged of $1 goal

490

backers

This is your chance to get a Kickstarter-exclusive copy of the game, with bonus settings included, for a special price! After the Kickstarter, the main book and bonus settings will be sold separately. It's also your opportunity for specialty dice!

Did you miss the Kickstarter? Visit www.corerpg.com to learn how you can be involved after this party is over.

Find Your Focus

Add up your number of skills, plus one for occupation, and the total is your Focus number, the only number you’ll need in the game. Characters with just a few skills are very "Focused," which improves their success with those things. Characters with many skills are less "Focused" in any, but they have a better “Jack of All Trades” chance when trying unknown skills.

Fight It Out

Layered onto this central set of rules is a fast, tactical combat system that can be played either as pure storytelling or with map and miniatures.

Explore Countless Worlds

As a final layer, you can choose any setting, representing three dozen worlds so far from more than 30 professional authors. (More authors are waiting in the wings, finalizing details with their publishers.)

Each setting chapter will provide its own skill list, from fantasy magic to starship piloting to ghostly powers, along with any special rules for creatures in that world, as well as an example adventure.

The CORE RPG is a great system for one-off adventures, but it also stands up well to campaign play. A draft of the main rules is online at www.corerpg.com, where you can also find my game-design credentials.

Why Kickstarter?

The purpose of this Kickstarter is to pay authors of the settings chapters, plus an illustrator and editor, and to fund print copies of the book. The game will also be available in multiple ebook formats.

The more stretch goals we reach, the more settings will be included, and we also have some special electronic rewards planned, which will be revealed later.

So please, scan the backer levels in the right sidebar, pick something that appeals to you, and spread the word to all your friends. The better our success, the more everyone will receive for their backing.

And if you have any other favorite authors whose worlds you’d like to see included, please point them our way. We’d love to provide an opportunity to role-play in their settings too. Thanks!

$1 - Basic Success - UNLOCKED!

The one buck minimum is just a placeholder. We're committed to publishing at least a 64-page set of core rules with four settings:

$8,000 Mini Goal - Twice the Character Sheets - UNLOCKED!

At this level, every backer at the $21 "Paper Pal" level or higher will receive 10 (ten!) free, professionally printed "character sheet" business cards in the mail.

The Basic Goal and packs above are only a start! We've lots more settings planned once those are reached. Each new setting adds six pages to the book.

UNLOCKED! – $8,125 – Psionic Pentalogy: A series in which a boy whose psychic powers are beginning to waken finds himself caught up in a secret war, by Adrian Howell
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UNLOCKED! – $8,750 – Jessie Shimmer: A rollicking series of modern magic, in which a fledgling witch travels to hell and back to save her lover, by Lucy A. Snyder
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UNLOCKED! – $9,000 Mini Goal – Printable Posters! At this level, all backers will receive a free high-resolution poster-sized file of the game cover AND of the Blood Type cover, suitable for printing at your local photo shop or drug store! (We've had good success with Staples and Walgreen's, for example.)

UNLOCKED! – $9,375 – Dark Angel: A series in which a young, earthbound angel warrior discovers that her archangel masters have made a deal with the devil, by Hanna Peach
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UNLOCKED! – $9,500 Mini Goal – Judy of the Jungle & Newshounds #1: For backers at the $21 "Paper Pal" level and above, Steve Miller of Neulow Games has offered a free PDF of both Judy of the Jungle: Murder Goes Native and Newshounds #1, the first published products to include d6xd6 CORE RPG stats!

UNLOCKED! – $10,000 – Gargoyle Knight: An ancient Celtic king who sacrificed everything to save the world from gargoyles, by becoming one, awakens in modern New York to carry on the fight, by William Massa.

$19,500 – The Sun Moon Hoax: Adventure on a science-fantasy version of earth's moon, as described in the Sun, an early 1800's penny press, by Steve Winter.

$20,000 – A surprise package yet to be announced!

You asked, and we listened! We're now able to accept orders for promotional dice, commissioned character illustrations, and CORE RPG-related Dragon Dice packs.

To include these items with a new pledge, simply choose a backer level from the right sidebar and add the appropriate amount to your pledge value.

To add them to a previous pledge, click "Manage Your Pledge" atop the right sidebar, and add the appropriate amount to your pledge value.

In either case, you will be able to indicate your exact add-on choices when the backer surveys are sent at the project's end date.

A. CORE RPG Dice & Fanged Smiley Dice

$3 per die, shipping included, worldwide!

B. Dragon Dice Two-Pack

$20 per two-pack. The Dragon Dice setting in the book includes rules for using a d8 (terrain) die and a d4 (magic item) die in place of the normal d6xd6. We've made a deal with SFR, Inc. to offer you a Battlefields box (terrains) and a Battle Chest box (magic items) for $20 total, with shipping included for US backers—a savings of more than $5 off the normal price.

C. Commissioned Character Illo in the Book

$95 per illustration, by your choice of professional artists Len Peralta, Otakatt, or Lenka Šimečková. This price both places your character illustration in the book and provides you a separate hi-resolution image for your own computer desktop, Web page, and printer.

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VAMPIRE ROCKER: An ebook and signed print book of the rules and every setting stretch goal reached, your character somewhere in the text, plus a Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG die and a promo fanged smiley die (and your name in the credits).

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GAME STORE SPECIAL: Three ebook copies and signed print books of the rules and every setting stretch goal reached, your character somewhere in the text, your game store somewhere in the text (with contact info), three Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG dice, and three promo fanged smiley dice (and your name in the credits, of course).

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VOYEUR: The "Vampire Rocker" package with twice the dice, and a slot in a monthly online preview playtest of settings in development, from August through the end of November, with playtest credit in the book.

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HARDCORE WITH TEETH: An ebook and signed hardbound print book of the rules with interior color, and every setting stretch goal reached, your character somewhere in the text, plus a Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG die and a promo fanged smiley die (and your name in the credits).

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Pledge $139 or more
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HARDCORE VOYEUR WITH TEETH: The "Vampire Rocker" package with twice the dice and an upgrade from softcover to hardcover with interior color, plus a slot in a monthly online preview playtest of settings in development, from August through the end of November, with playtest credit in the book.

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GAME HOST SPECIAL: Five “Vampire Rocker” packages and I’ll design and run a bonus online adventure for you and four friends, plus five Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG dice and five promo fanged smiley dice.

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YOUR WORLD HERE: An ebook and signed hardbound print book of the rules with interior color, every setting stretch goal reached, a Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG die and a promo fanged smiley die, your name in the credits, AND we'll professionally write, edit, and illustrate a world of your own imagining for inclusion in the book (subject to Popcorn Press approval).

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SUMMON GAME DESIGNER: The “Game Host Special,” plus I’ll drive anywhere within ten hours of Milwaukee to spend a day playing every current Popcorn Press game with you and your friends, including at least one as yet unreleased secret project, and will leave them all with you when I depart.

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VIRTUAL SUMMONING: A signed full-color hardbound and ebook of the game; your character somewhere in the text; your name in the credits; six Kickstarter-exclusive CORE RPG dice; six fanged smiley promo dice; one online role-playing playtest session for yourself and up to five friends; one copy of every book, ebook, and card game currently in the PopcornPress.com catalog; and my used 4th gen 8GB iPod Touch--with my name and Web site URL engraved on the back--to carry all those ebooks in!

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COMMAND PERFORMANCE: As per “Summon Game Designer” but I’ll travel nearly anywhere in the world (let’s talk first) and spend three days gaming with you (barring sleep time) and advising you on whatever writing or game design project you may have in the works. Plus for a full year, I’ll run a twice-a-month game session online for you and up to six friends, and will keep a running journal of your adventures at www.LesterSmith.com.